Tiny Yorkie Hiding Under Propane Tanks Saved Just In Time

When Sephora the Yorkie heard fireworks on the Fourth of July, she was immediately terrified — and when her family opened the front door for just a split second, Sephora bolted.

Sephora ended up wandering the streets for a while before crawling into a tiny space under a cabinet of propane tanks at a gas station. When a man noticed her hiding under there, he tried to lure her out with food, but she just growled at him, terrified, and so he decided to call for help.

Hope for Paws heard about Sephora and immediately suspected she might be a fireworks runaway. They quickly found the gas station where Sephora was hiding and used gates to fence in the area near her so that she couldn’t run away from them.

… they realized the tiny dog was somehow too big to fit through the gap between the cabinet and the ground. Everyone was baffled as to how she got under there in the first place, but refused to give up on their efforts to get her out.

“We were not able to pull her out, so I used a metal pole to lift the whole storage unit with the propane tanks,” Eldad Hagar, founder of Hope for Paws, told The Dodo. “The metal pole started bending, and Sephora almost got crushed, but Loreta pulled her just in time. The whole rescue took 10 minutes, but these were a stressful 10 minutes.”

Finally, little Sephora was free, and as soon as she was in the arms of her rescuers, she began to relax, as if she realized she was finally safe.

Sephora was scanned for a microchip, but unfortunately, she didn’t have one. Still, Hagar had a strong feeling that a sweet, healthy little dog like Sephora had a family out there somewhere, and so he decided to foster Sephora himself while he searched for her missing family.